Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Winnemucca Lake is a dry lake bed in northwest Nevada that features the oldest known petroglyphs in North America. Located astride the border between Washoe and Pershing counties, [ 1 ] it was a shallow lake until the 1930s, but was dried when a dam and a road were built that combined to restrict and block water flow.
Petroglyphs have been found in all parts of the globe except Antarctica, with highest concentrations in parts of Africa, Scandinavia and Siberia, many examples of petroglyphs found globally are dated to approximately the Neolithic and late Upper Paleolithic boundary (roughly 10,000 to 12,000 years ago).
Black Mountain (Pima County, Arizona) Cocoraque Butte Archaeological District; Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve; Honanki; Huerfano Butte (Arizona) Keyhole Sink
Mushroom Rock State Park, Ellsworth County, Kansas (1916) [1]. The geology of Kansas encompasses the geologic history and the presently exposed rock and soil.Rock that crops out in the US state of Kansas was formed during the Phanerozoic eon, which consists of three geologic eras: the Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic.
The petroglyphs are etched into lava rocks from cliffs formed millions of years ago and provide a glimpse thousands of years into the past. Yellowstone, petrified watermelon, rock art: These ...
[8]:79,80 Both schools of petroglyphs are thought to date to the late Bronze Age. [7] [8]:19. Sketch of a detail of an engraved rock panel showing a semi-human figure holding a rattle. The depiction of these rattles in the Malmontagne petroglyphs provides one basis, among several, for their dating to the late Bronze Age.
12,800–8,500 BCE: Artists etch the Winnemucca Lake petroglyphs, near Reno, Nevada. [2] 11,000 BCE: Megafauna bone etched with a profile image of a walking mammoth and cross-hatched designs left near Vero Beach, Florida is the oldest known portable art in the Americas [3]
The drawings are called petroglyphs, images created by people thousands of years ago. In between the dinosaur footprints were petroglyphs, or carvings made by ancient people, the study said.